Spats McGee
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Last Saturday, Mrs. McGee had to work and The Little McGee had a choir concert to attend in a town about an hour from here. Hmmm . . . Why, whatever shall I do all by my lonesome? Naturally, I decided to sneak out to the range. :evil: The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission runs a range about 30 minutes from my house. It's a very nice range, including an air-conditioned clubhouse, vending machines and clean bathrooms. . . a non-negotiable necessity if Mrs. McGee is to go to the range with me. It was a beautiful ~60* day, and I was clearly not the only one who thought it would be a lovely day at the range. There were about 8 other guys on the pistol range, plus the fellers on the rifle range. I had to drop my daughter off for a 7:00 a.m. departure on the school bus, but the range didn't open to 8:30. That left me somewhere between an hour and an hour and a half to get ready for the range.
Range bag? Stocked and waiting.
Ammo? In range bag.
Magazines? 7, all loaded.
Gun? Check.
Cold beverage? Check.
Gas? I gots enough to get there.
Shooting buddies? All booked up.
The Little McGee was to return ~11:00a.m., so I only had about 2.5 hours, not nearly enough time to shoot everything I wanted to. When I have to choose only one gun to shoot, I almost always choose Gretchen, my G19. She's my EDC. I shot 250 rounds, which is about half of the 9mm stash that I had in my range bag. All of it was Perfecta 115 grain, which is the cheapest thing I've been able to find at Wal-Mart around here. For whatever it's worth, I've shot ~500 rounds of that stuff and haven't had a problem.
I had target pictures that I was able to post on THR, but apparently, I cannot post them here. Suffice it to say that on the first target, (7 magazines (105 rounds), fired at 7 yards, slow fire), I pulled a little to the left. I then moved the target out to 15 yards, where the pull is even more pronounced.
After that, I got the "dad, the bus is heading back" text, so I had to load up and head home. My shooting was not fantastic, but I'm not going to complain, either. I'm not entirely dissatisfied with it. A SWAT buddy of mine took one look and started giving me pointers on improving, but I'll take shooting advice from my SWAT buddies just about any time.
It sure was nice to burn off all that stress from work, though.
Range bag? Stocked and waiting.
Ammo? In range bag.
Magazines? 7, all loaded.
Gun? Check.
Cold beverage? Check.
Gas? I gots enough to get there.
Shooting buddies? All booked up.
The Little McGee was to return ~11:00a.m., so I only had about 2.5 hours, not nearly enough time to shoot everything I wanted to. When I have to choose only one gun to shoot, I almost always choose Gretchen, my G19. She's my EDC. I shot 250 rounds, which is about half of the 9mm stash that I had in my range bag. All of it was Perfecta 115 grain, which is the cheapest thing I've been able to find at Wal-Mart around here. For whatever it's worth, I've shot ~500 rounds of that stuff and haven't had a problem.
I had target pictures that I was able to post on THR, but apparently, I cannot post them here. Suffice it to say that on the first target, (7 magazines (105 rounds), fired at 7 yards, slow fire), I pulled a little to the left. I then moved the target out to 15 yards, where the pull is even more pronounced.
After that, I got the "dad, the bus is heading back" text, so I had to load up and head home. My shooting was not fantastic, but I'm not going to complain, either. I'm not entirely dissatisfied with it. A SWAT buddy of mine took one look and started giving me pointers on improving, but I'll take shooting advice from my SWAT buddies just about any time.
It sure was nice to burn off all that stress from work, though.